Yeah, but has a MIP morphed from a unit of measure (mips) to being a thingie/doohickie (MIP)? %-p -----Original Message----- From: Dave Tweed Sent: Jun 7, 2004 1:47 PM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: [PIC:] PIC10F article - also S5400 roll yer own uP Charles Craft wrote: > Jim Turley wrote: > > > > "Not so many years ago DEC's VAX 11/780 was reckoned the first > > computer to execute 1 million instructions per second. Now a 4MIPS > > microcontroller costs less than a cup of coffee and is so small you > > might accidentally inhale it. " > > > > It's a 1 MIP chip, right? To be painfully accurate, it's a 1 MIPS chip. ;-) It wouldn't be so bad if Jim hadn't repeated the mistake several times throughout the article. He's quite a character, and often plays fast and loose with the details in order to make some point or another in the most dramatic way possible. -- Dave Tweed -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.